Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
‘A House Made Of Splinters’ Beats Odds To Make Oscar Shortlist
deadline.comBig outlets like HBO Documentary Films, Neon, and National Geographic dominate the Oscar documentary feature shortlist this year.
But a few films without major backers managed to make it through, including one film with no American distributor at all – Simon Lereng Wilmont’s A House Made of Splinters. “Unfortunately, we haven’t been able to secure U.S.
distribution. So, we’ve made it this far all by ourselves,” says the Danish director with a laugh. “It’s kind of like déjà vu with my last film, The Distant Barking of Dogs, where it was exactly the same situation.” Both his previous film and A House Made of Splinters unfold in Eastern Ukraine, a region where Russian-backed separatists and Ukrainian army forces engaged in fierce battle well before Russia’s full-scale invasion last February.
The constant fighting from 2014 onward applied severe pressure on civilian populations, leading to an increase in unemployment, alcoholism and drug addiction.
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